SAMPLER 2013 VOL. IV

Some of the bands have been featured previously on the blog (other samplers, bands of the month, videos or reviews) and two of them are brand new, a couple of folk metal bands. As usual, all the tracks are legal downloads from the Internet.

Enjoy!

Tracks 1-3 are free downloads from Triple J Unearthed
Tracks 4-7 and 9-11 are free downloads from Reverbnation
Tracks 9 and 11-13 are free downloads from Soundcloud
Track 8 is a free download from Bandcamp

1) SIBIN (Mildura, VIC, Australia)

http://www.sibin.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sibin/110048945697706
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Sibin
http://www.reverbnation.com/sibin
https://twitter.com/sibin_band

Line-up:

Mark Jenkins - Lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Charles Hendy - Tin whistle & flute
Corey Barbary - Tenor banjo mandolin & electric guitar
Tim Williams - Bass
Luke McCarthy - Drums

Discography (click to buy a digital copy from i-Tunes):

"Things You Can't Polish" (11 tracks)
"Industrial Life" (12 tracks, 2012)


2) THE DEAD RABBITS (Houston, TX, USA)

https://www.facebook.com/rabbitsofrock
http://www.reverbnation.com/rabbitsofrock

Line-up:

Seamuis - vocals & guitar
Christian (GFN) - Bass
James - Fiddle
Micah - Banjo & vocals
Josh - Mandolin, & vocals
Danny Boy - Guitar and vocals
Sean - Drums

Discography:

"The Race" (4 tracks EP, 2013)
Forthcoming album out soon

3) FLANNERY (Groningen, The Netherlands)

http://www.flannery.nl
https://www.facebook.com/flannery.celtic.folk.rock
https://twitter.com/flannerymusic


Line-up:

Denny Myles - Pipes
Peter Heerema - Drums
Steven Prins - Guitar
Michiel Stelpstra - Bass
Sebastiaan Hidding - Fiddle, back. vocals
Koos van der Goot - Vocals

Discography (click to get a better quality digital song from Bandcamp, Name Your Price):

"The Epic Beersong" (digital single, 2013)


4) THE SUNDAY PUNCHERS (Jo'Burg, Gauteng, South Africa)

http://www.thepunchers.com
https://www.facebook.com/TheSundayPunchers
http://www.reverbnation.com/thesundaypunchers
https://soundcloud.com/the-sunday-punchers
https://twitter.com/ThePunchersSA

Line-up:

Mostert Francois - Acoustic guitar & vocals
Michiel Kruger - Electric guitar & vocals
Shaun "Cabbs" Hillary - Banjo, mandolin & vocals
Adrian Vlok - Bass
Darryn Small - Drums
Bruce Missing - Bagpipes, tin whistle

Discography:

"The Sunday Punchers EP" (2011)
"Sea Monsters" (Single, 2013)


5) DREAMFALL (Talavera de la Reina, Spain)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/DreamFall/201156096633993
http://www.reverbnation.com/dreamfallgroup
http://www.myspace.com/dreamfall
http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/groupe-groupe-DreamFall-l-es.html

Line-up:

Alex Romero - Vocals, flutes and pipes
Pablo Barroso - Guitar
Ruben Ramiro - Bass
Dario Jusdado - Rythm guitar
Ivan de la Cruz - Drums

Discography:

"DreamFall demo" (6 track demo, 2012)
Forthcoming album out soon

6) DRAKUM (Barcelona, Spain)

http://www.drakum.com
https://www.facebook.com/Drakumband
https://soundcloud.com/drakum
http://www.myspace.com/drakumband
https://twitter.com/drakumband

Line-up:

Javi Crosas - Vocals
Mark Martinez – Guitar
Cristian Villanueva “Feni” - Guitar
Jose Luis Parreño - Bass
Javier Rubio “Caleb” - Violin
Albert Orozco - Keyboards
Xavi Puiggalí - Drums

Discography (click to buy a better digital version from Bandcamp):

"Around the Oak" (3 track EP, 2011)
"Torches Will Rise Again" (10 tracks, forthcoming album)


DOWNLOAD:

http://dfiles.eu/files/gnqqn0cpj

VIDEO - SIBIN "First One to Fall"

"First One To Fall" is the second video offering from Sibin. The song is featured on their first studio album - Industrial Life - and is available in all the usual places like itunes.

Footage was shot by Sibin's Charles Hendy and Tim Williams and was filmed over a number of gigs at the Echuca Moama Celtic Festival 2013 and the Mildura New Year's Eve concert at Nowingi Place. The clip was edited by Tim who did an exceptional job and who is also writing this blurb which probably explains the accolades!

A little bit about the band. Sibin (pronounced "shibeen") has been around the blocks a few times - they're a bit like an axe that's had 3 new handles and 2 new heads but the current lineup has been together for the better part of 10 years. They sure aint The Pogues, Flogging Molly or Dropkick Murphys, but they like nothing more than belting out our own brand of Celtic Punk...or whatever it is they do!

Most of their tunes have an Australian angle to the Irish tradition of bashing out and crashing out a tune about whiskey, deportation, potatoes or love lost/left behind. Their new album - Industrial Life - has a few traditional Irish songs (Salonika, Drunken Sailor, Maids When You're Young) stowing away on a voyage to the colonies. The rest of the album is made up of original tunes - some loose autobiographical accounts about life within a band on the road and some accounts of historic events such as the Eureka Stockade etc.

"Run Johnny Run" is slap-bang in the middle of what they do... some of their stuff is bashier, crashier and a whole lot faster while other songs (like "Away" and "Ode to Ireland") are quieter moments of reflection.

So if you like a bit of tin whistle to wash down your banjo-pluckin while getting smacked in the head with a wall of electric guitar and drums, perhaps you might like their CD. 

https://twitter.com/Sibin_band 

http://www.sibin.com.au


Sibin "First One to Fall"

SIBIN - NEWS JANUARY 2013

(From the band's newsletter)

"Happy New Year Everyone and thanks for your ongoing support!

Sibin has a very busy year ahead in 2013.  We are already booked to play the Echuca/Moama Celtic Festival March 15-17th and Koroit Irish Festival April 26-28th, with our application for The National Celtic Festival in Port Arlington and Sunday arvo's at the Mildura Brewery also pending.

Our album "Industrial Life" is selling well and we received and awesome review by popular website celticfolkpunk.blogspot.  It has also been nominated for "Best Album" at the inaugural Australian Celtic Music Awards with three of our songs, "Fare Thee Well", "She Don't Love Me" and "Run Johnny Run" also being nominated for "Best Song".

Mark has written three more songs which the boys will sink their teeth into over the next few weeks and we are hoping to showcase these at Echuca in March.

I hope this newsletter finds you all in good health.

All the best for 2013"

REVIEW - SIBIN "INDUSTRIAL LIFE" (2012)

Sibin "Industrial Life" Self-released via crowdfunding
Release date: October 2012
Running time: 38:49, 12 tracks
 
After several spins to Sibin’s second album, “Industrial Life”, I feel that these guys are the new Australian sensation. Mark (vocals, guitars and mandolin), Charlie (whistles, flutes, vocals), Corey (guitars, banjo, mandolin, concertina), Luke (drums) and Tim (bass, guitars) have released an album that is an excellent blend of Irish and Australian music. Most of the tracks on “Industrial Life” are written by Mark and Charlie, but there are also three traditional numbers.

Let’s start with those three songs. “Maids When You’re Young” is a song that was made popular by The Dubliners. “Maids when you’re young never wed an old man”. Sibin’s rendition is a brilliant cover. Bass and acoustic guitar are the first instruments to be heard. Then the vocalist starts to sing and there are some awesome backing vocals. The mandolin and drums  join and the song speeds up. The concertina plays “Mairi’s Wedding” and the song starts all over again with amazing whistle arrangements. The songs is perfectly “built” and the  instrumentation well-balanced. A true gem.

The wind and seagulls can be heard at the beginning of “Drunken Sailor”. Tin whistle and drums and then all the band members join on this electric version. Fantastic whistle and  guitar work. Grab a pint and dance!

“Salonika” is the third traditional song. This song has also being recorded by The Dubliners. Clapping and a capella singing. Then the tin whistle, mandolin and the rest of the band play “Humours of Glendart”. And finally, an electric end.

The next group of tracks, the “singles”: Tracks no. 1, 2 and 11.

“She Don’t Love Me” is a kick-ass song: “She don’t love me love me no more, she don’t want me drinking with the boys”. All the bands members shine on this song. If the Saw Doctors would have written this song, it would be number 1 in Ireland for several months.

“Run Johnny Run” was the song that the band chose to release a video. As the video was posted here some time ago, everybody knows that it’s a catchy song and one of my faves. I can even find some The Clash echoes on this track.

“Here We Go” is a rocking song featuring tin whistle and electric guitar.

Other tracks like “First One To Fall”, “Fare Thee Well” or “1854” are interesting numbers. Sibin’s stamp is clear and the sound is really Australian. Anyway, I would like to draw your attention to the last number, “Industrial Life”. It’s an acoustic song featuring only guitars and flute in a Christy Moore style.

If you like whistles and flutes, Irish traditional songs and Aussie rock and folk tradition, then drop a line to these guys and get a hard copy of “Industrial Life”


Tracklist:

1-She Don't Love Me 2:59
2-Run Johnny Run 3:10
3-Maids When You're Young 3:06
4-Ode to Ireland 4:32
5-First One to Fall 3:12
6-Drunken Sailor 4:22
7-Away 2:23
8-1854 3:47
9-Fare Thee Well 3:25
10-Salonika 2:57
11-Here We Go 2:24
12-Industrial Life 2:27   

http://www.sibin.com.au
http://www.reverbnation.com/sibin
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sibin/110048945697706
https://twitter.com/sibin_band


To buy a hard copy, contact the band:

orders@sibin.com.au

Click to buy a digital copy:

https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/industrial-life/id571639955?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Review by Kinksmarkham

VIDEO - SIBIN "Run Johhny Run"

"Our first music video from our new album "Industrial Life".

[Available on itunes here: 
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/industrial-life/id571639955?uo=4 ] 

Thanks heaps to our good mate Rob Klarich for his awesome work. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did filming it."

Sibin - Run Johnny Run

SAMPLER - AUSTRALIAN BANDS

Six bands from Australia. Three have been featured on previous samplers and their albums have been reviewed here (Handsome Young Strangers, Jack Flash and Between the Wars) and the others are featured for the first time.

All of the tracks are available for free download, most of them on Reverbnation and/or on Triple J Unearthed. The BtW song can be download from bandcamp.

 

TRACKLIST:

01 - HANDSOME YOUNG STRANGERS - Thunderbolt (from "Here's the Thunder Lads!") 4:19
02 - HANDSOME YOUNG STRANGERS - Wooloomooloo Lair (from "Here's the Thunder Lads!") 3:01
03 - JACK FLASH - Queensberry Rules (from "Jack Flash") 4:10
04 - THE GOOD SHIP - A Harbour Fair (from "Avast! Wretched Sea") 2:28
05 - THE GOOD SHIP - These Are a Few of my Favourite Flings (from "Avast! Wretched Sea") 3:51
06 - THE GOOD SHIP - Bury Me (from "Avast! Wretched Sea") 4:29
07 - SIBIN - Dowd's (from "Things You Can't Polish") 2:31
08 - SIBIN - Belfast Mill  (from "Things You Can't Polish") 3:56
09 - JOHNNY JUMP UP - Johnny Jump Up 4:54
10 - BETWEEN THE WARS - The Aces Are coming (from "The Aces Are Coming" single) 2:59

BONUS TRACK

11 - HANDSOME YOUNG STRANGERS - Thunderbolt (Live at Armidale Uni) 4:28



1) HANDSOME YOUNG STRANGERS (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)

http://www.reverbnation.com/handsomeyoungstrangers
http://www.myspace.com/thehandsomeyoungstrangers
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Handsome-Young-Strangers/106393595011

Members:

Freddo - vocals, lagerphone, harp, guitar
Drizzabone D - vocals, mandola, guitar
Marky Na-Na- vocals, guitar, baritone, batsteel, dulcimer, ukelele, mandobird, 35 dollar accordion
Adam Kenny Rumjack - mandolin, banjo
Jim Mongrel- bass, vocals
Mark "Looch" Lewis - drums

Discography:

"Shane Warne" (3 tracks, EP, 2007)
"Melbourne Town" (Single, 2009)
"Here Come the Thunder Lads!" (17 tracks, 2011)

2) JACK FLASH (Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia)

http://www.jackflash.com.au
http://www.facebook.com/Jack-Flash/54397746525
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=11320
http://twitter.com/jackflashband

Members:

Jack Hickey - Electric guitar
Tom Michel - Mandolin/vocals
Liam Walsh - Drums
Shai Clement - Acoustic guitar
Blaise Clement - Bass
Louie - Violin

Discography:

"Take Notice" (6 track EP, 2007)
"July Tour" (3 track EP, 2009)
"Demands Were Met" (3 track EP, 2009)
"Rebel's Revenge" (3 track EP, 2011)
"Jack Flash" (10 tracks, 2011)


3) THE GOOD SHIP (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)
   
http://goodshipband.com
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=36011
http://www.reverbnation.com/thegoodshipmusic
http://www.facebook.com/thegoodship
http://www.myspace.com/thegoodshipisaverybadship

Members:

Daz Gray – singing, guitar & mandolin
John Meyer – singing, guitar & percussion
Geoff Wilson – mandola, mandolin, percussion & shouting
Brett Harris – banjo, guitar, percussion & singing
Janey Mac – bass guitar, double bass & singing
Kat Cooke – trumpet, percussion & singing
James Lees – drumkit & percussion
Kat Ogilvie – accordion, percussion & singing

"Avast! Wretched Sea" (12 tracks, 2010)

4) SIBIN (Mildura, Victoria, Australia)

http://www.sibin.com.au
http://www.reverbnation.com/sibin
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sibin/110048945697706?sk=info

Members:

Mark Jenkins - lead vocals & guitar
Charles Hendy - tin whistle & flute
Corey Barbary - banjo & electric guitar
Luke McCarthy - drums
Tim Williams - bass

Discography:

"Things You Can't Polish" (11 tracks)

5) JOHNNY JUMP UP (Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia)

http://www.reverbnation.com/johnnyjumpup
http://www.myspace.com/jjuband
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Johnny-Jump-Up/375995621093

Members:

Duncan Mitchell - vocals, guitar, mandolin
Mark Harland - vocals, guitar, bass
Amanda Dallas - vocals, violin
Tom Kidd - drums

6) BETWEEN THE WARS (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

http://www.betweenthewars.net
http://www.reverbnation.com/betweenthewars#!
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=35777
http://www.myspace.com/between.the.wars
http://www.facebook.com/betweenthewars
http://betweenthewars.bandcamp.com

Members:

Jaymz Stevens - vocals, guitar
Jason Hatcher - vocals, ukulele
Aaron Allen - mandolin, guitar, vocals
Paul Trevorrow - bass, vocals
Sam Humphrey - violin, vocals
Jess Carlton - violin, trumpet
Damien Evans - Drums


Discography:

"Carried Away" (11 tracks, 2010)
"The Rats" (9 tracks, 2011)
"The Aces Are Coming/I Forget What I'm Doing Here" (2 track single, 2011)
   
DOWNLOAD:

http://www.mediafire.com/?3f4k4v9co1m4c6j